Graham Stringer

Graham Eric Stringer (17 February 1950-) was the Labour Party MP for Blackley and Broughton from 2 May 1997 to 6 November 2019, succeeding Kenneth Eastham.

Biography
Graham Eric Stringer was born in Beswick, Greater Manchester, England on 17 February 1950, and he became a local councillor in Manchester in 1979 and served as City Council leader from 1984 to 1996. He was elected to Parliament in 1997 as the Labour Party MP for Manchester Blackley, and, in 2008, he was the first Labour MP to call for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's resignation; he was also a supporter of Israel, a sceptic of climate change, and a supporter of Brexit. He resigned in 2019.